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waking up

Lately finn wakes up earlier - he's then exhausted in an hour so I know he's not ready to get up. I put a towel over the window hoping it would keep the light out. Anyway it hasn't worked and I find I am stressing out to the sound of his gurney wake up. Its a horrible moan and it means that every single day I wake up in a bad mood. Any advice on how I can de-stress.

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Maddie geverally wakes up at 7.30, she wakes up chirping, talking and happy. If she wakes up at 6-6.30 she wakes crying / whingey and isn't ready for the day so I've started feeding her. Give her a bootle, treat it as a night feed and she goes back to sleep for 1.5-3 hours. Could be worth a shot x

My lo keeps waking at 5, but mummy and daddy aren't ready then, so leave her and she generally goes back off until 6.30. With our older one. He went through a stage of early waking and we realised of we have him a bottle quick enough then he would go back to sleep for at least an hour, but be careful, he started waking earlier and earlier until he was waking at 3.30/4am 😤

Yeah hes waking around 6pm and if I leave him he generally goes back down until 7-730 but its the whinging and gurning that is the issue. I don't know if I'm depressed atm but I just can't keep waking up this way as it puts me in a bad mood the rest of the day.

My lo has woke up between 5/5.30 all this week :( mummy is very tired!! He usually sleeps 7-7 which was perfect. I've tried everything, black out blind, earlier bed time, later bedtime, bottle but nothing's worked so far!! He's shattered and usually napping by 8 xx

How early is your first nap? Pushing out the first naptime- even if baby is very tired!- can often help prevent early waking. Black out blinds also a good investment in these days of early morning sunlight!

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